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Over April 2005, Simon Foxton styled 30 models as 'living magazine pages', seated in front of a webcam. Via telephone, the 'Sittings' models could take questions from a curious public watching via the Internet. This project details not only each outfit of this thirty-day editorial but also a monograph of Foxton's trailblazing styling career through text and image.

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'These pictures are less to do with styling than the approach and how I'll set them up. I started by looking through portraits of men. What really stood out was the repetition of men sitting: it had a certain resonance. Something to do with the cropping as well, half-way down the leg. A picture I particularly like is the image of Basquiat; the distance he is from the camera, the intimacy. If it gets too far back, it feels like it's just recording something. If it's too close it becomes personal. That composition gives the right information and the right level of intimacy. Because a lot of the images are from the early twentieth century, there is a seriousness that I began to enjoy and I expect this will be reflected in the selection of the clothes.' Simon Foxton

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Over April 2005, Simon Foxton styled 30 models as 'living magazine pages' - a different man each day in an Autumn/Winter 2005 outfit by a different fashion designer. Each model was groomed, carefully composed as a magazine shot and seated in front of a webcam for four hours.

Via telephone, these Sittings models could take questions from a curious public watching via the Internet. This project details not only each outfit conceived by Foxton for this thirty-day editorial but also provides a monograph of Foxton's trailblazing styling career through text and image.

Allowing glimpses into Foxton's world of inspirations and influences through his source imagery and sketchbooks, Sittings: 30 Men is a timely examination of Simon Foxton's consistently innovative career as one of the foremost fashion stylists of his generation.